GNU bug report logs - #13752
Suggestions regarding the minibuffer

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Message #26 received at 13752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 13752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, esabof <at> gmail.com, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#13752: Suggestions regarding the minibuffer
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:32:34 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 07:46:04 +0200
> Cc: E Sabof <esabof <at> gmail.com>, 13752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:
> 
> > But does `signal' use one of too low-level messaging functions?
> > I can't find what function displays the error message in the echo area.
> 
> I hoped that was only me.  :-)  I tried following the logic from Ferror
> to Fsignal to signal_or_quit, but it wasn't at all obvious to me where
> that's actually displaying the message.
> 
> I instrumented set_message, and that's called by Fsignal at some point,
> but even with Vset_message_function set properly, the error message
> still ends up in the echo area...

'set_message' isn't called to display errors signaled by 'signal',
because those messages don't go the 'message' route.  Those messages
go through cmd_error, which eventually calls command-error-function.
The latter is by default bound to command-error-default-function,
which displays the error message via print_error_message.

I think Lisp programs that want to control this should bind
command-error-function to the function of their liking.

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